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Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social |
Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about
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Wendell B
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Has anyone checked Hamilton's grave down by WTC and Wall Street for rotation?
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Ben Nagy
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this is what boggles me, bc the founders were clearly *massive* Ancient Roman Republic weebs, and there it is literally the biggest thing 🤷
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Nick Phillips
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This should kill the lie of so-called originalism stone dead.
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Nich Hills
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SCOTUS has created a kingship above the law. Best not elect to this office a lawless man.
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Arend Bayer
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And all this in the context where the prior (at least) 5 centuries of British history can roughly be understood as a struggle to put constraints and accountability on the throne.
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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat
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REALLY weird that all those Originalists missed that point!
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Karl Magnacca
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And describing this as “making the president a king” and “we fought a war about this” is itself wrong, because the England we broke away from had already established that the *king* is not above the law! They fought a whole war about it 150 years earlier!
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Thom Beckett
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As a British person I kind of thought that was the whole point of the affair from 1776 onwards. You all made a whole big thing about it.
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Jennifer Van Goethem
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I mean it was a WHOLE thing at the time.
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Roger Vaillancourt
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Washington would be flipping goddamn tables over this one
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